Cruising for ocean conservation: no exactly a waste of time. Plastic pollution in the oceans

Grabación realizada por Ciencia compartida (Biblioteca Universitaria)

Programa de entrenamiento en control de la activación, rendimiento y autoeficacia en golfistas infantiles: un estudio de caso

[ES] Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo comprobar mediante un estudio de caso el efecto de un programa de entrenamiento en control de activación mediante técnicas de respiración y biorretroinformación, sobre la autoeficacia y la efectividad del golpe del putt en cuatro golfistas entre 11 y 14 años.

Multifunctional water-soluble phosphorus dendrimers

Dendrimers are polymeric macromolecules with a regularly branched structure and are synthesised in an iterative fashion. Due to their monodispersity, well-defined shape and extremely high functionality, dendrimers are ideal nano-sized objects for functional and biocompatible surface coatings, biosensing and biomedicine. This dissertation describes the synthesis of ten novel water-soluble phosphorus containing dendrimers and their application in different biological and biomimetic systems. The dendrimers can be divided into two classes; the first type contains either a ferrocene at the core or 24 ferrocenes in the branches. They showed reversible reduction-oxidation behaviour and might be applied in electronic multilayered architectures. Dendrimers of the second class carry a dithiolane functionalised core that can strongly bind to noble metals, like gold substrates. Although such dendrimer coated substrates were unable to tether defect-free lipid bilayer membranes, the coatings were successfully applied for culturing Human Osteoblast cells. The cell adhesion to a coating of polycationic dendrimers was so strong that cell division could not take place, specifically evoking apoptosis. The polyanionic dendrimers, however, promoted excellent cell adhesion and proliferation. Therefore, the practical application of such macromolecular architectures can be envisioned, such as in dendrimer coatings for tissue engineering and or medical implants.

Teorema di Brouwer ed applicazioni

Lo scopo di questa tesi è analizzare il teorema del punto fisso di Brouwer, e lo faremo da più punti di vista, generalizzandolo e dando una piccola illustrazione di una sua possibile applicazione nella teoria dei giochi. Il teorema del punto fisso è uno dei teoremi prìncipi della topologia algebrica. Nella versione classica esso afferma che qualsiasi funzione continua che porta la palla unitaria di \R^{n} in se stessa possiede un punto fisso.

Comparison of different treatment modalities for oral halitosis

To assess the effects on intra-oral halitosis by a mouth rinse containing zinc acetate (0.3%) and chlorhexidine diacetate (0.025%) with and without adjunct tongue scraping.